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BT announces leadership changes

BT Group has announced leadership succession within its Openreach and BT International units. Openreach Deputy CEO Katie Milligan will become the CEO on April 1st. She succeeds Clive Selley, who will become CEO of BT International. He succeeds Bas Burger who has decided to leave BT after 18 years of service, including nine years on […]

February 10, 2026

£289m boost for UK rural broadband

Some of Britain’s most isolated communities will benefit from faster broadband speeds, giving them better access to a range of services including healthcare at home through virtual consultations and remote monitoring, and helping to combat loneliness by ensuring pensioners can access high-quality video calls. It will also support businesses to better grow and serve their […]

January 8, 2025By Colin Mann

UK launches £5bn ‘Project Gigabit’

More than one million hard to reach homes and businesses in the UK will have next generation gigabit broadband built to them in the first phase of a £5 billion (€5.84bn) government infrastructure project. Up to 510,000 homes and businesses in Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Tees Valley will be […]

March 19, 2021By Colin Mann

Openreach FTTP in 67 new locations

UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a further 67 locations in its Fibre Cities programme where it will be building its new, future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology, as part of a new tranche of build. Work will begin in March 2021. The new locations stretch across the nation – from Alloway, in Ayrshire; to […]

September 15, 2020By Colin Mann

Openreach completes Salisbury full fibre build

Openreach has completed what they claim is the fastest city-wide network build in the UK – making ’Full Fibre’ broadband available to more than 20,000 premises in just under 12-months, starting in March 2019 and finishing in March 2020. Plans to announce the completion in March were postponed in light of the pandemic. Clive Selley, […]

June 12, 2020By Colin Mann